Re: Handling of non-positional data through evdev

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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 17:17 -0700, Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
>> Hi Bastien,
>>
>> Thanks for providing this suggestion. I can see this approach work
>> for
>> situations like screen rotation on tablets. The device I'm involved
>> with is an input device, which needs a high poll rate for
>> acceleration
>> / velocity and needs to be paired with the button / axes data. Evdev
>> would be most appropriate.
>
> So more like a Wiimote than a builtin sensor. What will consume events
> in user-space? A specialised application?

Correct see it more like a wiimote-like device. I expect many
userspace applications (desktop or embedded) to ultimately support
this device and many existing applications could already use the
device except they can't utilize the motion sensors.
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